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Traverse City Light and Power just took a step toward unleashing a powerful jobs and income machine: It installed a new “net metering” policy, allowing TCL&P’s customers to generate limited amounts of renewable energy and sell it back to the utility....
Community groups, advocates, schools pitch in to ‘go local’...
Leaders campaign to ‘go local,’ ‘go green,” and protect farmland...
Updates from Grand Rapids, Muskegon, and Holland...
From neighborhoods to boardrooms, local food is building community’s economy...
Northern Michigan test hints at deep reserves, potent controversy...
There is widespread consensus that real action must be taken now to decrease the impact we are having on our environment and combat climate change. To help guide the actions our community takes, SEEDS is launching a Climate Action Planning Survey....
Grocery store anchors new activity, community garden...
Biomass rejected, utility seeks public’s ideas for a clean-energy plan...
Experts rebut foes’ claim that ‘public trust’ means ‘state control’...
Staff reconnects food, farming, and community building...
So far, our answers to Traverse City Light & Power’s questions about our “20-20″ proposal have explained that saving a watt is the same as generating a watt and is much cheaper, so spending on efficiency makes way more sense than spending on new power pla...
June 28, 2010 | By Jim Dulzo
But his gubernatorial campaign claims he’s a clean-energy leader...
Push for efficient trucks, electric cars make Michigan a clean-car capital...
But sharing plant’s heat makes it better than coal, natural gas...
During that time, I was immersed in the glories, the sorrows, and the constant that is coal. ...
I want to tell you about a place called the Yellow Dog Plains, way up north in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It is one of the most beautiful places in the world. Its waters are pure and true and they run into the Great Lake, mother Superior....
Air permit denied! I had long thought that when I finally read those words I would be filled with happiness and joy. The reality was that I cried. And then I got really angry. ...
Those first and last points won the day with the state, which determined that Wolverine has other, cheaper, cleaner options for obtaining power, and that the plant would increase the cost of its customers’ electricity by close to 60 percent....
Stockholders' motions question carbon, coal ash costs...
